From: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
To: maz@kernel.org, oupton@kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, joey.gouly@arm.com,
seiden@linux.ibm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com,
yuzenghui@huawei.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
vdonnefort@google.com, qperret@google.com,
Sascha.Bischoff@arm.com, steven.price@arm.com, tabba@google.com
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] KVM: arm64: Pin the host vCPU before adjusting its PC under pKVM
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:38:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260915123846.2317931-6-fuad.tabba@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260915123846.2317931-1-fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Under pKVM, a page the host shares with EL2 is mapped at EL2 only while
it's pinned, and the host vCPU is pinned at its first KVM_RUN.
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with ext_dabt_pending reaches __kvm_adjust_pc() at
EL2 before that, and dereferencing the unmapped host vCPU panics the
hypervisor. Any process holding /dev/kvm on a pKVM host can trigger it.
Pin the host vCPU around the adjustment when no hyp vCPU is loaded for
it. A loaded hyp vCPU implies it's pinned. A pin fails only for memory
the host isn't sharing, and the request is then dropped like any other
bad host pointer.
Fixes: efa1368ba9f4b ("KVM: arm64: Commit exceptions from KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS immediately")
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index b2657a3c65b40..a138b42e7cea3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -542,8 +542,27 @@ static void handle___pkvm_host_mkyoung_guest(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
static void handle___kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
{
DECLARE_REG(struct kvm_vcpu *, vcpu, host_ctxt, 1);
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu;
- __kvm_adjust_pc(kern_hyp_va(vcpu));
+ host_vcpu = __get_host_hyp_vcpus(vcpu, &hyp_vcpu);
+ if (host_vcpu) {
+ __kvm_adjust_pc(host_vcpu);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * With no hyp vCPU loaded for it, the host vCPU may be unpinned,
+ * and so unmapped at EL2: its first run pins it. A pin fails only
+ * for memory the host isn't sharing, a bad pointer, so the request
+ * is dropped.
+ */
+ host_vcpu = kern_hyp_va(vcpu);
+ if (hyp_pin_shared_mem(host_vcpu, host_vcpu + 1))
+ return;
+
+ __kvm_adjust_pc(host_vcpu);
+ hyp_unpin_shared_mem(host_vcpu, host_vcpu + 1);
}
static void handle___kvm_flush_vm_context(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-15 12:38 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: arm64: pKVM host hypercall and GICv5 CPU interface fixes Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: arm64: Reject the GICv5 CPU interface hypercalls under pKVM Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 14:02 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-15 14:12 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: arm64: Reject the stage-2 flush " Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: arm64: Validate the host-provided vgic model in pKVM Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: arm64: Validate the host vCPU's VM before reading it under pKVM Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: arm64: vgic: Do not access the GICv5 CPU interface from EL1 Fuad Tabba
2026-09-15 12:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: arm64: Fix stale VGICv3 comments in the nVHE world switch Fuad Tabba
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